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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Old fashioned radio

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Mon Jun 18 23:23:20 2012

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From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:23:47 -0400
To: Klingon language email discussion forum <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se> wrote:
> The exact gloss for Se' in TKD is "frequency (radio) (n)". As such, it seems to be a general term for any frequency, not just the radio wave part of the spectrum.

I interpret it in precisely the opposite fashion: it is *explicitly* radio. You might be thinking of {chaDvay'} "frequency (Hertz)".

> Also, in Star Trek, "radio" could also refer to "subspace radio", which probably doesn't work anything like regular radio. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that rI'Se' ("hailing frequency") could never be tapped into using any form of transistor radio.

Subpace radio is always referred to as "subspace radio" {'evnagh Se'} or just as "subspace".

-- ghunchu'wI'

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